[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 15137]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]


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                             SECURITY LEAKS

  (Mr. PITTS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, our national security is serious business. 
The American people have a right to know that we are safeguarding our 
defense secrets well. But the Clinton-Gore administration has botched 
the job. A suspected spy was allowed access to critical secrets in Los 
Alamos for 17 months after FBI Director Freeh advised the 
administration he should be removed from classified areas.
  Between November of 1997 and November of 1998, 191 supercomputers 
were shipped to Communist China. Only one was checked by the 
administration to make sure it was not being used for weapons 
development.
  In 1996, the Loral Corporation was found by the Department of Defense 
to have damaged our national security by sending critical missile 
technologies to the Chinese, but the administration went ahead and had 
them keep launching missiles in China, ignoring DOD's recommendations. 
I might add, the CEO of this company gives $1 million a year to the 
Democratic National Committee.
  In June we found out that hard drives containing secret nuclear data 
were missing for a month before even anyone noticed.
  Mr. Speaker, we have a security problem in this administration. It 
needs to be addressed immediately.

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